Someone came out with the tired old claim that the site is dying, there is a mas exodus, yada yada yada. Some people would really love for that to happen, I know ...
We have gone down a few places on BigBoards simply because some new sites were added to it that have more posts - the sites we are ranked alongside all went down by the same amount at the same time and we've gone up against some and down against others (not that sheer post numbers matter that much). Also, a combination of optimising page caching and Alexa changing how they rank things has reduced the ranking on that too ... but how are we really doing?
Well, the site is as busy as it has ever been !
The Google ads provide a count of the topic views (this doesn't include pages such as "active topics") and this is regularly around 30,000 per day. Since the site has been running it has served over 31 million topic views in total! Just think of all those people learning a bit more about the WTS or getting a bit of help from other peoples shared experiences.
The number of posts per day took a bit of a dip a couple of months ago when server problems were fairly regular but since we moved to this server (which has been very reliable) this has also increased and is again as high as it's ever been. (see the graphs below)
Most important of all, there is always a heathly supply of new people finding and joining the site (which isn't parasitic like some others) so while people do leave and move on, which I have always seen as a healthy sign, there are others jumping in.
So, all in all I think we're doing pretty well. Certainly no exodus
We have some plans for some exciting new developments in the coming months as well which I expect will be really welcomed when they are unveiled ... so stay tuned.
JWD - still the biggest and the best JW forum on the 'Net and kicking ass